{"id":160407,"date":"2025-09-22T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:05:07","slug":"rare-fin-whale-filmed-off-falmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160407\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare fin whale filmed off Falmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wildlife photographer has captured rare footage of a fin whale off the coast of Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A wildlife photographer has captured rare footage of a fin whale off the coast of Cornwall, in what he describes as one of the most memorable moments of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Dylan Coundley-Hughes, who is based in west Wales, was visiting Cornwall for a few days to film marine wildlife when he received a tip-off from local fishermen about a large whale sighting in Falmouth Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;We headed out early Friday morning and started scanning the water,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There were feeding frenzies going on, dolphins, tuna, birds, and then we saw the blow of the whale. It was massive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The fin whale, known as the &#8220;greyhound of the sea&#8221; for its speed, is the world&#8217;s <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg3p8mv08yko\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">second-largest animal after the blue whale<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Mr Coundley-Hughes was able to film it from above using a drone, alongside a pod of common dolphins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He said: &#8220;The dolphins really put into perspective just how huge the whale was. It was incredible to witness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He added that the experience was a career highlight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the biggest whale I&#8217;ve ever seen. I do a lot of marine wildlife filming, and this is definitely one of the top moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;A lot of people don&#8217;t realise just how much marine life we have right here off our coasts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife photographer has captured rare footage of a fin whale off the coast of Cornwall. A wildlife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-160407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}